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One film we’re excited to watch this year is Ehteshamuddin’s Khan Tumhara, an action-packed epic of heroism starring Bilal Ashraf and Maya Ali in its rugged main roles.

After the film’s teaser released in November, we got a spell of extended silence from the filmmaker, who didn’t reveal any new information for months. That silence broke on Friday when the film’s poster dropped.

Carrying much of the same gun-slinging bravado of the teaser, the poster shows Ashraf wielding an assault rifle in one hand while holding Ali close with the other. As would be the case with any self-respecting action flick, there is an explosion going off behind them. The film is set to release on Eidul Adha.

The teaser, for those who haven’t seen it, was full of guns, goons and glory. It began in icy terrain, with a narrator speaking of a perilous path full of struggles and oppression. “The pharaohs of our time wear but a single face, a face I am sworn to recognise. I will find them and I will rise up. And I will talk the sacred line decreed by God. My name is Yusuf Khan, this is my story,” he said, with Ashraf’s character on screen.

There’s a scene where one of Karachi’s iconic black and yellow taxi cabs drifts through a roundabout and another where Ali’s character is setting up a shot with a sniper rifle.

Variety reported that the production employed multiple international crew members for its action sequences, with Nick Khan of Eternals and Hussain Abdullah of Skyfall leading the team. The crew traveled to Pakistan to shoot the action sequences and train local crew members for several months, after which it took around 70 days to shoot the action scenes alone.

The publication reported that Ashraf performed his own stunts, without body doubles, sustaining multiple injuries during filming.

“For years, Pakistani cinema has flirted with action but we have never truly let it bleed,” Ehteshamuddin told the publication. “Khan Tumhara is our answer to that hesitation. Yusuf Khan is not a hero you cheer for from a safe distance; he is the man who drags you into the dust with him where love is a wound; power is a poison; and vengeance is the only prayer left. This is our story, told with our sweat; our scars; our stubborn refusal to look away.”